Words to the Disinherited from One Who was Disinherited

Part 2 of our three-part series goes into greater depth as we explore the Rev Dr Howard Thurman's question, "What does the religion of Jesus have to say to those who live with their backs against the wall?" Investigating three natural techniques used by the oppressed to survive their oppression, Thurman points to Jesus's experience and his subsequent teaching to his own fellow oppressed compatriots about how to deal with these three "hounds of hell," as Thurman calls them. In all of this, it is vital to see that what Jesus has to say and what Thurman has to say are not the words of one outside the oppressive scheme providing advice to those stuck within it; both Jesus and Thurman speak as ones enduring it themselves...